Giuseppe Verdi

The popularity of the movie "Water for Elephants" provides an excuse for this parade of powerful pachyderm facts:

1. African and Asian elephants are different species. The African savanna elephant is taller and heavier, has bigger ears and a concave back. The Asian's trunk ends with just one lip, versus two on African elephants. The Asian has one fewer pair of ribs but more toenails. And Asian elephants are hairier, which makes sense, as they are more closely related to the extinct woolly mammoth than to their contemporaries in Africa.

2. Duchess, Lincoln Park Zoo's first elephant, once escaped. In October 1892, she ran through a pond before leaving the zoo grounds...

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The popularity of the movie "Water for Elephants" provides an excuse for this parade of powerful pachyderm facts:
1. African and Asian elephants are different species. The African savanna elephant is taller and heavier, has bigger ears and a concave...